Zhang Yu looked at Gongsun Shao and said: "Since Xuanting has passed the order, Gongsun will guard the town and give me the edict for review."
Gongsun Shao took out the pass letter from his sleeve, handed it to him and said: "Here is the pass letter."
Zhang Yu took it and opened it and glanced at it. This document stated that because of Huo Heng's incident, he wanted Gongsun Shao to keep him for a while and try to figure out the reason.
He looked at the signature carefully again, and then returned it to Gongsun Shao, who asked: "How? Can the patrol come back with me?"
Zhang Yu said calmly: "The message is true, but please forgive me for not being able to obey."
Gongsun Shao's expression dropped and he said, "Zhang Xunhu, are you going to disobey Xuan Ting's order?"
Zhang Yuping said: "If it is really a decree from Xuanting, I should obey it, but this letter from Gongsun Shouzhen is just a letter. It has neither the seal of Xuanting nor an explicit edict. I will obey it."
No need to obey."
Gongsun Shao stared into his eyes, shook his hand, and said: "Zhang Xunhu, you just saw it clearly, it was Xuan Ting Tingzhi's own handwriting!"
Zhang Yu shook his head and said: "I patrol for Xuanting, and I only obey the orders of Xuanting, not the orders of a certain court official."
Gongsun Shao frowned and said, "What's the difference?"
Zhang Yu looked at him and said: "Of course there is a difference. This letter was sent in the name of the court official and was given to Gongsun Shouzhen. At best, it is private life. I am not his disciple and I have never
I have served him, and he has shown no favor to me, so why should I take this order from now on?"
Gongsun Shao couldn't help but put his hand into his sleeve. At this moment, he wanted to take out the paper charm, but when he put his finger on it, he still hesitated.
He took a breath and said: "Zhang Xunhu, have you thought clearly? I'm just asking you to stay for a while longer. I'm not asking you to do anything. Even if you are not Xuan Ting's right life, just for such a trivial matter, you will be offended.
Is it worth it for a court official?"
Zhang Yu looked at him and said: "If it's for my personal business, it's really not worth it, but if I can do it in a correct order and strictly follow the rules, it's worth it."
He understood Gongsun Shao's thoughts. For a long time, some of the words passed down by Xuanting Tingzhi were no different from Xuanting's edicts to his disciples. Even the more prestigious Tingzhi would probably be able to do so without official orders.
Let the people below bow their heads and obey orders.
Of course, not everyone thinks so, but even if some people understand the connection here, they don't want to openly disobey a court official.
But he doesn't recognize this. If you want to order me, then you have to take the right life. You just pass the order in private. I'm sorry, I won't obey it.
Even if this court official appeared here at this moment, he would dare to fight back in person.
Gongsun Shao looked at him with complicated eyes for a few times. After a while, he slowly took his hand out of his sleeve.
He didn't say anything else, but slapped him in the face and said: "Guard Zhang, the wind and waves are strong ahead, so be careful along the way."
Zhang Yu looked at him, nodded, raised his sleeves and bowed in return, saying: "Fellow Daoist Gongsun, thank you for sending me off."
After returning the gift, he turned around, walked up the steps, and walked into the white boat under Gongsun Shao's watchful eyes.
As the cabin closed, a burst of light flashed over the boat, and the white boat slowly rose into the sky, then turned into a streak of brilliance across the sky, and then disappeared quickly away.
Gongsun Shao stood on the mooring platform for a long time without moving, his sleeves swaying in the wind. He looked at the vast sea in front of him, as if he was thinking about something.
Footsteps sounded behind me, and the disciple's voice came: "Master, are you just going to let this person go?"
Gongsun Shao shook his head and said: "I can stop him, but I have no reason to stop him." He turned around and said: "Didn't I ask you to watch from the station? Why are you here again?"
The disciple hurriedly took out a document and said: "Master, I think the master needs to read the news just sent."
Gongsun Shao took it over and took a look, his eyes narrowed. The document actually said that someone suspected of Huo Heng appeared in Chaoming City, southwest of the Duhu Mansion.
He immediately put away the paperwork and said, "Follow me."
The two people immediately took off into the air and flew towards the southwest. On the way, a vermilion flying boat approaching from the front passed them by.
They didn't pay much attention to it while they were on their way. Half a summer later, they arrived at Chaoming City and found the monk who delivered the document.
Gongsun Shao opened the document and asked: "You sent this here? How do you know about Huo Heng?"
The monk said respectfully: "This disciple is the informant sent here by Ji Shouzhen. After the incident with the Chaos Monster, Ji Shouzhen asked me to keep an eye on it here, and gave me a painting of Huo Heng, telling me if
If you see someone like this, report it immediately.
Although Ji Shouzhen has died, he did not tell me to stop, so the disciples are still watching here."
Gongsun Shao listened patiently to what he said and said, "You did a good job. When and where did you last see him?"
The monk pointed to the parking platform outside and said, "The last time I saw him, he got on a flying boat and left. He left about half a summer ago."
"What did you say?"
Gongsun Shao suddenly turned his head and looked into the distance. In other words, there might be someone among the few flying boats he just saw?
The disciple said: "Master, are you pursuing me?"
Gongsun Shao thought for a while, waved his hand and asked the monk to go down first, and then said calmly: "You can't catch up."
The disciple said: "Master, it's only half summer. Those passenger boats are not flying fast. If we speed up a little, we can still catch up."
Gongsun Shao shook his head and said, "It's useless to catch up."
The disciple asked in confusion: "Why is this?"
Gongsun Shao pondered for a moment and said: "After Huo Heng transformed into a chaotic monster, there seemed to be traces left on his body. Wherever he passed, there would be traces of him or strange things happening after two or three days or more.
appears, so sometimes he can be found in two different places at the same time.
These photos are no different from his own, and they also have certain power. We only discovered the true identity of these things after we managed to encircle and suppress them several times in the past."
The disciple was surprised: "Is this so?"
Gongsun Shao nodded and said: "What the disciple saw just now is very likely that Huo Heng was here a few days ago or even longer ago, but the traces were only reappeared today.
If I ignore it, the traces will disappear after a while, but if I catch up, a big battle will be inevitable. Not only will it be difficult to catch the animal, but innocent people may be implicated. This is a move that outweighs the gain and loss.
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The disciple was puzzled: "Then why did he do this?"
Gongsun Shaodao: "It's still unclear whether this was done intentionally or because of his own fault, but every time he appears, it may mean that he is going to do something."
The disciple said in disbelief: "Master said that even Xuan Zun might be keeping an eye on this person. He acts like this and exposes his whereabouts from time to time. We can't do anything to him. Aren't we afraid of being arrested by Xuan Zun?"
Gongsun Shaodao: "We have deduced before that this person must be protected by some other means, either a magical weapon or a means given by a powerful person, so that he can cover himself, not to mention..."
He sighed: "As the most outstandingly talented person among the monks of that generation, who knows what kind of achievements he has now?"
When the disciple heard this, he suddenly thought that the Huo Heng he saw just now may have left traces, but who can really be sure?
Then maybe it's Huo Heng himself?
He secretly looked at his teacher. If he could think of it, then the master could think of it too, right? But why was the teacher so sure that it must have left traces?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but trembled. He suppressed this hidden thought, lowered his head, and did not dare to say anything more.
On the other hand, after Zhang Yu left the Duhu Mansion, Bai Zhou had already walked this journey once, so he directly handed over the control to Bai Zhou's own consciousness.
He himself was sitting there reading Taoist books, but in his spare time, he would also give some advice to Yan Yuming who came to ask for advice.
At first, only Yan Yuming and a few Xuanfu students were listening, but later it turned out that he didn't mind others listening, so more and more fellow students were attracted.
Fortunately, the main cabin is extremely spacious and can accommodate even hundreds of people attending lectures at the same time.
Zhang Yu's current martial arts and magical power are extremely rare among his peers. Not only is his martial arts profound, but because he has been studying Taoism for a long time, he has also seen many of the best gifts given by Xuan Zun and Xuan Ting.
Taoist books also have a very profound grasp of Taoist principles.
The two complement each other, so the Tao and Dharma he explains often go straight to the fundamentals, and he explains many things that students would not understand during their daily practice.
What amazes the students the most afterwards is that each of them has different skills and cultivation. Some of them have not found their inner light, and some have passed the first chapter, but everyone feels it.
This teaching seems to be telling myself that everyone can get what they want from it.
In just a few days, everyone felt that they had made great progress.
On the fourth day of the white boat's journey, Zhang Yu finished his sermon and asked the students to disperse on their own. He planned to read the next Taoist book again, but at this time he seemed to feel something and looked up.
, I saw a vermilion flying boat sailing ahead.
Judging from the shape and direction of the flying boat, it should have set off from the Dongting Protectorate and headed for Qingyang. It must have set off earlier than them, but the white boat was faster, so it has caught up now.
But while he was watching, Bai Zhou had already passed the flying boat and moved further forward. Soon the turbid tide that filled the air obscured his vision, and the flying boat could no longer be seen.
He thought for a moment, shook his head, then picked up the Taoist book and read it intently.
Three more days later, Bai Zhou spent almost seven days crossing the boundless sea and returned to Qingyang Shangzhou. Under the guidance of the beam of light from the mooring rooftop, Bai Zhou slowly stopped on a mooring platform.
Come down.
The hatch opened, and Zhang Yu led a group of people down from the high platform. But at this moment, he suddenly felt that something was wrong. He stood still and looked back, only to see a vermilion flying boat parked.
over there.
But he clearly remembered that this flying boat was already far behind Bai Zhou, but why did it appear here in advance now?
